Royston Vasey Memories
Mr A.C. Pitt-Rivers FRS, Curator of the Royston Vasey Corset Museum has made available to us a photograph of the original Butterfield Combined Corset and Bust Enhancer .We have had many queries about this since we showed the picture of Miss Augustina Sykes’ incredibly small waist on October 9th. Mr Pitt-Rivers has had made, with the help of the technicians at the Dreadnaught Corset Company, a replica of this garment. His personal assistant, Miss Wilhelmina Sprogget kindly modelled this for our staff photographer Mr Jack Fox-Talbot. Miss Sproggett said ” I don’t know how women went on with them in the old days as the first time I was tight laced in it I passed out after 10 minutes and Mr Pitt-Rivers had to loosen my clothing and use various means of resuscitation to bring me round , I had to have lots of brandy too, I was quite squiffy.” Mr Pitt- Rivers hastened to point out the brandy was purely medicinal. Mr Fox-Talbot said just looking at Miss Sprogget in the corset made him feel a little lightheaded and was there any brandy left?.
We wish to thank Mr Pitt-Rivers and Miss Sprogget for all their help.
Miss Wilhelmina Sprogget modeling the replica corset.

